New Book Turns Sushi into Art

ByPeter Schlesinger

We love this new book from celebrated Japanese food artist Tama-chan. A photo-anthology of her works, Smiling Sushi Roll showcases sushi at its most whimsical. While not all of the rolls themselves are smiling—a shockingly accurate copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream, for example, is not—readers certainly will be when they flip through the pages. The text is in Japanese, but a picture is worth a thousand words, right? Especially when it's a picture of a sushi tyrannosaurus.